Peter Drucker Knowledge Quotations

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.